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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DEC. 18, 1873. 


To Correspondents, 
BENS 
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become a medium of useful and reliable information between gentle- 
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ENGLAND VS. AMERICA—CHALLENGE 
TO OWNERS OF POINTERS AND SET- 
TERS. 

E take especial interest in publishing the following 
letter from Mr. Price, of Bala, North Wales, the 
owner of the famous pointer ‘‘Belle,” with the sanction of 
the Rey. Cumming Macdona. Asyet we have had no prac- 
tical trials or field tests of pointers and setters in the United 
States. Yet there are many gentlemen sportsmen, who 
own first class American bred dogs, who would be willing 
fo enter their animals for these tests in the field. Prize 
dogs are very handsome to look at and expatiate upon, but 
the only true criterion is public performance on the ground. 
We must here call the attention again of English sports- 
men and boating men to this fact, Why have we invariably 
to cross the Atlantic to enter into trials of speed, endur- 
ance, and breed? But in this particular instance the liber- 
ality of the challenge is characteristic of the gentle- 
men concerned. We would suggest to Mr. Price and Mr. 
Macdona that they should pay us a visit. We will promise 
birds such as the pinnated grouse and quail ad liitum. As 
to the ground, the open prairie would be the most desir- 
able location :— 
GREAT WESTERN HoTEL, Birmingham, Eng., 
November 29th, 1873. t 
Eprror ForEsT AND STREAM :— 
We are pleased to hear that our respected cousins on the 
other side of the Atlantic are beginning to take an interest 
in field trials on game for pointers and setters, the newest, 
and by many thought the most interesting of all our British 
sports, and in order to give these sportsmen in America, 
who have taken up shooting dogs, an opportunity of seeing 
the best animals perform that England can produce, Mr. 
Macdona and myself will be glad to make a friendly match 
against any pointers or setters now in America; not Eng- 
lish dogs, imported for the purpose—these we can run at 
home—but bona fide American animals. If the owners of 
the American team consent to run in England, we will 
gladly pay expenses, and in this case a well known sports- 
man and master of fox hounds, Sir Watkin William Wynn, 
of Wynnstay, will lend the requisite ground and game. I 
should propose that a double match, brace against brace, 
should first be run off, then two single matches to follow. 
I would suggest as the English;judge the name of Viscount 
Combermere, a well known arbitrator at field trials, and a 
renowned sportsman. Also, the 13th and 14th of August 
next a3 the date for running off the match, and, if pre- 
ferred, two brace from each country can take part in it. 
Your obedient servant, R. L. Pricer. 
Belle, the champion pointer of England, is ‘a liver and 
white bitch, pupped June 28th, 1870, by Lord Henry Ben . 
tick’s Ranger out of his dog Grouse, and is the champion field 
trial dog of his day. She was first in the Rhiwlas Stakes 
for all aged pointers and setters, beating Mr. Macdona’s 
Ranger, Mr. Llewellen’s Countess and Flax, Mr. Statter’s 
Rob Roy, &c. Appended are the points she made in the 
Rhiwlas Stakes :— 
VALLE OF POINTS WHEN PERFECT. 






30 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 5 100 
Name ‘za | Pace and & | Pointing, tw | Drawing g 
of ° | style of 3 | (style an | £ | on game | & 
Dog. ® | Hunting. f | Steadiness) | tan or Si 
os in 1 Roading. 
Belle. | 27 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 10 5 lor 

We call the attention of the following gentlemen to the 
above challenge:—Colonel Trigg, of Glasgow, Kentucky, 
Mr. George Taylor, of Virginia; Dr. Myers, of Savannah; 
Mr. Stephen Whitney, of Morristown, New Jersey; Mr. R. 
Robinson, of Brooklyn; Mr. Eyrich, of Mississippi; Mr. 
Raymond, of New Jersey; Mr. Scott Rodman, of New 
Jersey, and Colonel Knight, of Wisconsin. The portrait 
of ‘‘Belle” can be seen at this office. 
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OPEN AIR STIMULANTS. 


he earnest and sympathetic friend, whose contributions 
frequently delight and instruct the readers of Forgst 
AND STREAM, addresses us privately in these truthful and 
outspoken words :— 
‘“‘T look to manly and womanly sports, and to the culti- 
vation of natural tastes, for the only corrective to the pre- 
gent dissipated manner in which the self-indulgent of both 
gexes seek, in lavish and extravagant customs and ways 
that enervate mind and body, the interest and occupation 
that fail always, and leave days of pleasure-seeking to come 
up in memory as disappointments only. Horatio Seymour 
once said tome: ‘ Nature never disappoints us; her mys- 
teries when unravelled are always pleasant, and as one 
grows old, natural tastes grow more and more congeniaf, as 
artificial life is seen to be unsatisfying.’ Your paper, as 
now conducted, is leading in this recoil from the whirl and 
press of city hfe, and the first to enjoy it will be the men 
who are most mentally driven. The shade and rest of the 
wild wood, the quiet impressions given by all that appeals 
to,eye and ear, are as grateful after care and haste as a 
snug harbor is in a tempest; and many human wrecks 
would be saved did more men cool their brains in forest 
springs, who now cool their ‘coppers’ with drinks in a line 
at Delmonico’s. I think, as life driven by steam, electri- 
city, and stimulants, becomes more complex, the reaction 
to quict life will gain power; and fortunate are those men 
who turn in time to the rest Mother Earth still gives—for- 
tunate those, when they go to the quiet whence none TE 
turn, who do not hold on to folly to the end.” 
Although these thoughts were written for private ear 
alone, they explain so charmingly and so concisely the phi. 
losophy of life, that we fain would print them. And when 
we speak of life, we do not mean eaistence—for that is 
something too hard to bear at times—but that quickening 
of those higher impulses, passions and intelligencies, inborn 
in men, which alone makes true enjoyment here and happi- 
ness hereafter. And what is the fulness of this enjoyment 
but healthful vigor of body and mind? Such condition 
neither needs nor craves artificial stimulants. No super- 
heated steam is required to run the physical machine. 
Out-door exercise supplies all the nerve-power necessary. 
It kills the morbid craving of debauched stomachs, and 
changes the desire for alcoholic stimulants to a repugnance 
which revolts at taste, sight and smell thereof. It eradi- 
cates disease and throws it off with the natural foul secre- 
tions of the body. The system, surcharged with health, 
with all its functions in vigorous play, may well exult over 
and despise that casual factitious force which ‘‘rum” be- 
gets. There is something noble and grand in the fibrous, 
sinewy structure of the brawny backwoodsman who swings 
his axe, or the voyageur who poles his batteau, hour after 
hour from one week’s end to another. Grog won’t hurt 
them. They may take their gill at hourly intervals, but 
exercise, perspiration and fresh air will counteract its 
deleterious effects. Perhaps, and doubtless, if they con- 
tinued its use, evil results would follow; but the fact is, 
the disposition to drink decreases with each succeeding day 
of labor; the intervals of desire and indulgence become 
less frequent until it is lost altogether. Most woodsmen 
will use liquor if they have it with them; but if they have 
it not, they cease to feel its loss after a short period of 
abstinence. In the winter-camps of the hardy lumbermen 
no strong drink is permitted; yet no one feels or complains 
of the deprivation... There is a glow of health and hardi- 
hood pervading all these lusty men to that degree, that when 
they gaze with full unflinching eye into each other’s ruddy 
faces, they feel the mettle of their manhood and rejoice in 
mutual and self-respect. Thisis the triumph and exultation 
of ‘‘minds conscious of rectitude.” Vileness and depravity 
can scarcely exist in the free atmosphere of the wild wood. 
The. associations are all purifying and ennobling. Give us 
public parks, beautiful flowers and wide-extending lawns, 
and wickedness will skulk away from the light into its 
darksome reeking recesses. Give the people exercise. In- 
struct them all, rich and poor, and give them facilities for 
the practice of those pastimes which compel out-door ex- 
ercise. Teach the intemperate to flee to the woods for es- 
cape from the power that enthrals. Tell them to seek new 
fields of recreation and change from the pestiferous atmos- 
phere of debauching indulgence, and when they have 
thrown off the weight that deadens the intellect, depraves 
the taste, vitiates the blood, and shrinks the muscles, fully 
restored, they will rise up and call you blessed. This 
remedy is more certain and effective than inebriate asylums. 

AGASSIZ. 
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HERE died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sunday 
last, the 18th of December, Louis John Rudolph 
Agassiz, who was born at Motiers, near Neufchatel, Switz- 
erland, May 28th, 1807. His life and history, the various: 
strides he made, until he stood the toremost in the world. 
for ichthyological and almost cosmical knowledge, may be 
thus briefly mentioned: Ateleven, Agassiz commenced 
his studies at the Gymnesium of Bicnne, and four years 
afterwards entered the College of Lausanne. In 1824 he 
went to Zurich, and applied himself to medical instructiom 
for two years. Then he moved to Heidelberg, combining; 
his anatomical physiological pursuits with that of zoology.. 
In 1827 he was matriculated in the Munich University. 
Here he studied under such illustrious men as Schil- 
ling, Ddllinger, Martius, Oken, and Fuchs. While a stu- 
dent, Spix, a distinguished zodlogist, who had in charge 
under Professor Martius, the publication of the ichthyo- 
logical portion of a work on Brazil, suddenly died, and the 
work was confided to Agassiz, and almost instantly the 
young scientist assumed a marked position. Here he 
abandoned all idea of making a profession of medicine, and 
from that time devoted himself to the study of icthyology 
and kindred topics, though graduating with the highest 
distinction as Doctor of Medicine. He now commenced 
studying the fish of the Danube and the fossil forms in the 
fresh water deposits of Europe, continuing without inter- 
mission during a period of ten years the most laborious 
researches, frequenting all the European museums in quest 
of specimens for study and comparison. In Paris he was 
fortunate in becoming acquainted with Cuvier and Hum- 
boldt, the former having expressed his admiration for the 
accurate and artistic sketches of fish and fossils furnishe 
by Agassiz. In 1838, Agassiz commenced the publication 
of his wonderful folio in five volumes on fossil fish. This 
work was met by the applause of the world, and the title 
L.L.D. by the Universities of Dublin and Edinburgh, was: 
conferred on him. Numerous. monographs followed, and! 
from 1833 to 1840 he published many exhaustive works om 
the fish and shells of the present and past eras. During: 
the summers of most of these years, amid the Alps, Agassiz; 
stgdied the glacial phenomena, embodying the results of 
researches in two works. In 1846, Agassiz, in order to fa- 
miliarize himself with the natural history and zoology of 
this country, visited the United States, completing a rapid 
survey in about a year, and lectured before the Lowell In- 
stitute, repeating his lectures in many of the principal 
cities. In 1847 the Scientific School in Cambridge was 
committed to his charge, starting with but a few pupils. 
His health suffering, in 1852 he accepted a position at the 
Medical College in Charleston, 5. C., remaining there for 
two years, when he returned to Boston. Sometime in 1850) 
he commenced the preparation of his ‘‘Contributions to: 
the Natural History of the United States,” this work being 
published principally by the aid given by citizens of New 
York. The opening of Agassiz’s Natural History School 
at Penikese, due to the munificence of Mr. Anderson, was 
an occurrence of but a few months ago. What brilliant 
discoveries, what bright promises of future wonders to the 
world, might not have been expected trom this ‘source? 
But it was not to be. Perhaps an over-tasked brain helped 
to carry away this great man, in the midst of his most use- 
ful years. There are but few men in this world who can 
take Agassiz’s place. He will rank with Owen, with Wag- 
ner, with Muller, with Liebig, Cuvier, and Humboldt, as. 
having exercised the greatest influences on the progress of 
modern science, and America may be proud to have in- 
duced such aman as Agassiz to have dwelt in her midst, 
so that her people might listen to him as to a great teacher. 
Unlike the conquests of the material world, which leave no 
traces a few years hence, what Agassiz has achieved in 
science must remain forever. Mr. Disraeli’s words lately 
spoken at Glasgow are pertinent on the occasion of this brief 
notice of Avassiz. The ex-Premier of England said: ‘How 
much has happened in these fifty years—a period more re- 
markable than any, I will venture to say, in the annals of 
mankind? Iam not thinking of the rise and fall of em- 
pires, thechange of dynasties, the establishment of Gov-: 
ernments. JI am thinking of those revolutions of science: 
which have had much more effect than any political! 
causes, which have changed the position and prospects of 
mankind more than all the conquests and all the codes and 
all the legislators that ever lived.” 
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THE ENGLISH SALMON HARVEST. 
Lists ee 
T’ is most gratifying to learn, from no less an authority 
than the London Times, of the marked improvement in 
the yield of salmon caught in the English, Scotch, Welsh, 
and Irish waters. If in an economic sense alone, the in- 
creased supply of food had added immensely to the welfare 
of the English pecple, this augmentation deserves additional 
notice from the fact that it is to the English fishermen, the 
gentlemen who fish for pleasure and not for profit, that this 
development of the fish is due. The London Times dis- 
tinctly states that it is to the individual exertions of anglers, 
that the laws in regard to preserving the salmon have not 
only been originated in England but have been enforced, 
and from being some few years ago a fishery of no great. 
importance, it promises to-day to be a source of great 
wealth to the country at large. 
The Scotch yield of salmon was wonderfully productive. 
The number of boxes, each box containing 112 lbs. of 
Scotch salmon received in London last year, was 30,181; 
the year before it was 24,464 boxes. The largest salmon 
taken north of the Cheviot Hills weighed 64 pounds. 
